Wight Conservation - March 2006

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Experimental pond in Longmead
Experimental pond in Longmead
 

Artie and Angie Biles visiting from Tiverton
Artie and Angie Biles visiting from Tiverton


Badger route across Rew Farm
Badger route across Rew Farm
 
Badger scratchings at Rew Farm
Badger scratchings at Rew Farm

Badger scratchings at Rew Farmhouse garden
Badger scratchings in Rew Farmhouse garden
 
Damp-proofing Rew Farmhouse
Damp-proofing Rew Farmhouse
- note outline of old range

Gorse management 1
Gorse management 1
 
Gorse management 2
Gorse management 2

Grazing in the light snow
Grazing in the light snow
 
Flint rock enveloped by veteran ash tree roots
Flint rock enveloped by veteran ash tree roots

Fully restored pond at Mottistone Common
Fully restored pond at Mottistone Common
 

Garden at Rew Farmhouse
Garden at Rew Farmhouse
 

Orphan Derrick
Orphan Derrick
 

Pine used by mature highlanders as a rubbing post
Pine used by mature highlanders as a rubbing post
 

Rew Copse
Rew Copse 1
 

Lucy of Balure with heifer calf by Ruairidh of Glengarnock
Lucy of Balure with heifer calf
by Ruairidh of Glengarnock


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Open pit in Longmead
Open pit in Longmead 1
 

Ruth of Balure, half sister to Lucy of Balure
Ruth of Balure, half sister to Lucy of Balure
 

Rew Copse
Rew Copse 2
 

Rew Copse
Rew Copse 3
 


Rew Copse 4
 

Rew Copse - with no pheasants
Rew Copse - with no pheasants
 

Rew Copse - with pheasants
Rew Copse - with pheasants
 

Wet rot at Rew Farmhouse
Wet rot at Rew Farmhouse
 

Which way do we grow?
Which way do we grow?
 

Yearling heifer at Rew
Yearling heifer at Rew
 

Tree surgery in progress
Tree surgery in progress
 

View northwards across Rew Farm
View northwards across Rew Farm
 

View towards Wroxall Down
View towards Wroxall Down
 

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